Vibration-equalizing support for motors.



, Patented Dec. I6, 1902.

.A. BOCHET. VIBRATION EOUALIZING SUPPORT FOR MOTORS.

(Application filed Mar. 23, 1901.)

(No Model.)

Z I MM UNITED STATES PATENT. OFFICE.

ADRIEN BOOHET, OF PARIS, FRANCE.

VIBRATION-EQUALIZING SUPPORT FOR MOTORS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 715,954, dated December 16, 1902.

Application filed March 23, 1901. fierial. N- 52,501. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ADRIEN BooHET, of 14 Rue de Passy, Paris, France, engineer, have invented Improvements in Vibration-Equalizing Supports for Motors; and I do hereby declare the nature of my present invention and in what manner the same is to be performed to be clearly. described and ascertained in and by the following specification.

My present invention relates to an improved vibration-equalizing support for motors, &c.

The object of this invention is to provide means for mounting the motors of motor-vehicles on the frames of such vehicles in such a manner that the vibration of the motor will be taken up by the mounting and not be transmitted to the frame.

The invention is fully disclosed in the following specification,of which the accompanying drawings form a part, in which the separate parts of my improvement are designated by suitable reference characters in each of the views, and in which- Figure 1 is a front View of a vehicle provided with my improvement, the motor being I the motor S which is shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1, and the crank-shaft S of which is provided with bearings S and as thus provided it will be seen that the motor is free to swing laterally.

At each side of the motor are placed supports b, which are connected at their upper ends with the motor by means of ball-andsocket joints b and the lower ends of the supports-b are loosely or pivotally connected at b with springs R, secured at R to levers O, mounted-on and adapted to turn on pins 0, secured to the axle A at 0 One of the levers C is provided at its inner end with a link G and the other is provided with a fork F, having a pin '11, which passes through the link 0 and as thus supported it will be seen that the motion or vibration of the motor will be taken up entirely by the mounting or the supports thereof.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A motor vehicle having longitudinal frame members connected with the axles thereof, transverse supports connected with said frame member, a motor mounted in said supports and adapted to swing laterally, said -1n0tor being provided with laterally-arranged supplemental supports loosely connected therewith and with-springs which are connected with the axle centrally thereof, substantially as shown and described.

2. A motor-vehicle, the frame of which is provided with transverse supports, a motor mounted on said supports and adapted to swing laterally, supplemental supports connected with said motor laterally of its firstnamed connection, said supplemental supports being also connected with springs which are secured to levers pivotally connected with the axle and adapted to swing vertically, one 

